What is your favorite Christmas movie and why? A Christmas Carol, many. many adaptions
I really like stories of transformation, paradym shift - Matrix
Mirrors what is close to our heart and God's message to us - Prodical son, Paul blinded, Lazurs raised; Jesus death to life
Describe Scrooge - Greedy, Cynical, Selfish, Rich, Lacked Grace
What do you think Scrooge thought of himself?
1 Timothy 4:15-16 – Watch your and doctrine closely
How can we be deceived on where we are?
What lies has Satan said you to stop you from changing?
Reflection
Describe rest of the story - God's perpective
2 Corinthians 7:8-11 - Repentance
Response
“Spirit!” Scrooge cried, “hear me. I am not the man I was! I will not be the man I must have been so far! Why show me this if I am past all hope? Good Spirit, I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall be within me. I will not ignore the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me that I may change my fate!”
What did Scrooge realize?
What evidence there of Scrooge's repentance?